biblatex-phys – A biblatex implementation of the

aip and aps bibliography style∗

Joseph Wright†

Released 2019/12/03

This package provides a style for biblatex which follows the guidelines of the
aip and aps. The citation style is numeric and unsorted. The bibliography style
follows the pattern of the official REVTEX class (http://ctan.org/pkg/revtex).
The style should be loaded in the usual way
\usepackage[style=phys]{biblatex}

Load-time options are provided to deal with the small number of variations between
the aip and aps styles. The References section of this document demonstrates
the format generated by the package using the biblatex-phys.bib database of
example citations.
The styles use the standard biblatex database requirements. This means that a
database designed for traditional biblatex use may need some editing for optimal
output. The accompanying example database biblatex-phys.bib shows examples
of all of the supported entry types with common fields filled in.

1 Style options
All of the styles here add a small number of package options to the standard set
provided by biblatex. This allows the styles to cover the variations seen between
the aip and aps styles.
doi The standard style options doi, eprint isbn and eprint, as described in the
eprint biblatex manual. However, these options are turned off as standard by the phys
isbn style. This reflects the fact that these entries may be present in reference databases
url but are not generally included in published bibliographies. Note that doi values
are printed for journal articles with no pages given, even if the doi option is false.
subentry In common with the standard biblatex numeric styles, all of the styles in the
bundle support the boolean subentry option. With this set true, entries of type
set are given individual labels within the bibliography.
articletitle The use of article titles varies between the aip and aps styles. The boolean
option articletitle is available is control this behaviour. The standard settings
is true, which follows the guidelines of the aip: it should be set to false to follow
the aps style. (This option also applies to the titles of proceedings entries and
patents, which are treated in the same way.)
biblabel The format of the numbers used in the bibliography (the “bibliography label”)
∗ This file describes v1.1b, last revised 2019/12/03.
† E-mail: joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk

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 varies. he biblabel option allows the user to easily set the format used. This
option takes a values superscript (the standard setting) and brackets.
chaptertitle Printing chapter titles for incollection entries is part of the aip style but is
not part of the aps style. The chaptertitle option can be used to control this.
pageranges The inclusion of the full page range of journal articles varies between the aip and
aps styles. The boolean option pageranges is available is control this behaviour.
The standard settings is true, which follows the guidelines of the aip and prints
the full range: it should be set to false to follow the aps style, which will result
in only the first page being printed.

1.1 collaboration field

To support large-scale collaborations, the style recognises the collaboration field.
This is a simple text field which gives the name of the collaboration, and which is
printed in parenthesis after the authors.

1.2 aip and aps styles

As detailed above, the standard settings follow the aip style. To obtain the aps
style, use
\usepackage[%
style=phys,%
articletitle=false,biblabel=brackets,%
chaptertitle=false,pageranges=false%
]
{biblatex}

2 Title formatting
The style convert article titles to sentence case format. This can be suppressed
using
\DeclareFieldFormat{titlecase}{#1}

3 url formatting
The style uses the url package to format hyperlinks. As such, the format of these
is left to the document author to alter. The \urlstyle command may be used to
alter this, either for the whole document or only for the bibliography, for example
by using
\AtBeginBibliography{%
\urlstyle{rm}%
}

4 Interaction with babel

In common with other biblatex styles, biblatex-phys uses the csquotes package
mechanism to place article titles in quotation marks. This means that the formatting

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of these will depend on the babel language in use. Full details are covered in the
manuals for biblatex and csquotes.

5 Errors and omissions

Suggestions for improvement and bug reports can be logged in the package
issue database, found at https://github.com/josephwright/biblatex-phys/
issues, or can be sent by e-mail to joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk.

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Change History

v0.9a v0.9e
General: Detect and remove General: Link “related” articles
repeated information in entry using doi or url . . . . . . . . . . . 5
sets at any position in the set . 5 v0.9f
v0.9b General: Allow for variation in
General: Enable use of firstinits journaltitle formatting . . . . 5
option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 v1.0
Fix handling of doi field for General: First stable release . . . . . 5
article entries . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 v1.0a
Print doi or url after year for General: Ensure style works with
article entries, consistent with both backends . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
online behaviour . . . . . . . . . . 5 v1.0b
v0.9c General: Fix author list formatting
General: Link article publication issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
details using doi, url or arXiv v1.0c
eprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 General: Update DOI link structure 5
Titles in sentence case . . . . . . . 5 Update internals to follow
v0.9d standard biblatex style changes 5
General: Correctly include “related” v1.1
material (Biber-only) . . . . . . . 5 General: Support for
Improve arXiv formatting . . . . . 5 collaboration field . . . . . . . . 5
Link book titles using doi or url 5 v1.1a
Minor fix for book formatting . . 5 General: Biber support for
Update journal title printing so collaboration field . . . . . . . . 5
case is unchanged by processing v1.1b
of article titles (introduced in General: Fix printing of DOI when
v0.9c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 pages are missing . . . . . . . . . . 5